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In 1911 J.M. Barrie produced a novel of his extremely successful
play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, first
performed in 1904. The novelized version of the dramatic text was
published under the title Peter and Wendy. Inevitably, the
transition from play to novel made additions and elaborations
necessary; and the events that dominated Barrie’s personal life
while writing the novel also played an important part in its
atmosphere and development. By the time Barrie had finished
Peter and Wendy, both Arthur and Sylvia Llewellyn-Davies
had died, leaving him the legal guardian of their five boys,
George, Jack, Peter, Michael and Nico to whom, incidentally, he
already referred as “my boys” in P…

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Citation:
Fimi, Dimitra. "Peter and Wendy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 May 2008
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2836, accessed 10 December 2016.]

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